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Crossing Carries or connects Location Built Length Notes Coordinates Charlestown Bridge: Route 99 (N. Washington St) Boston to Charlestown: 1900 331.9 meters (1,089 ft) The MBTA Orange Line used this bridge, before the upstream tunnel was completed in 1975. Site of a ferry established in 1630; obsoleted by the Charles River Bridge, built 1786
Ford L&N Bridge (closed) L&N Kentucky River Bridge. CSX Transportation. Joseph Proctor Memorial Bridge. KY 499. Irvine and West Irvine. Captain Zachary Chase Clevenger Memorial Bridge. KY 52. Heidelberg Bridge.
The Charlestown Bridge, officially named the North Washington Street Bridge, is located in Boston and spans the Charles River. As the river's easternmost crossing, the bridge connects the neighborhoods of Charlestown and the North End. Completed in 1900 and given its current official name in 1910, [1] the bridge carries a portion of the Freedom ...
The Kentucky River is a tributary of the Ohio River in Kentucky, United States. The 260-mile (420 km) river and its tributaries drain much of eastern and central Kentucky, passing through the Eastern Coalfield, the Cumberland Mountains, and the Bluegrass region. [2] Its watershed encompasses about 7,000 square miles (18,000 km 2 ), and it ...
High Bridge of Kentucky. / 37.8168; -84.7200 ( High Bridge) The High Bridge is a railroad bridge crossing the Kentucky River Palisades, in Kentucky. The bridge, about 275 feet over the river below, connects Jessamine and Mercer counties. It was formally dedicated in 1879, [1] and is the first cantilever bridge built in the United States.
The course of the Wilderness Road by 1785. The Wilderness Road was one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. Although this road goes through the Cumberland Gap into southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee, the other (more northern route) is sometimes called the "Cumberland ...
U.S. Route 119 enters West Virginia from Kentucky as unsigned ADHS Corridor G, a four-lane limited-access highway stretching from Williamson to Charleston. The earliest segment of Corridor G to open was in 1972 and was finished in 1997. Formerly, US 119 was a typical two-lane mountain highway. Old US 119 now comprises all or parts of US 52, WV ...
A view of the Ohio River from Charlestown State Park. ... Back in 2006, workers at the park were building a new boat ramp when a Native American cooking area was found that dated back to 2000 BC.